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Swanson, Kate. 2024. The Emotion, Space and Society AAG Lecture: Emotional entanglements in a world that’s falling apart.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Emotion, Space and Society. 101002.
Thompson, Amy, Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue and Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2022. Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 39-58 in Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States. London: Routledge.
Torres, Rebecca Maria, Kate Swanson, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Sarah Blue. 2022.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Bordering through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico. Political Geography. 98: 102719.
Ciborowski, Haley M., Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez, Kate Swanson, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Holly Baker Shakya. 2022.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala. Journal of Migration and Health. Volume 5, 100096.
Torres, Rebecca Maria, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Kate Swanson. 2022.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|“Asylum is not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied youth and racio-governance at the US border. Geopolitics.
Stoler, Justin, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ira Sheskin,Amber L. Pearson,Gary Schnakenberg, Dominique Cagalanan,Kate Swanson, Piotr Jankowski. 2021.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|What’s in a name? Undergraduate student perceptions of geography, environment, and sustainability key words and program names. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 11(2):317-342.
Delgado, Emanuel and Kate Swanson. 2021.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Gentefication in the barrio: Art, displacement and urban change in Southern California. Journal of Urban Affairs. 43: 925-940.
The Impacts of COVID-19 on the SDSU Community. ESRI StoryMap. February 5, 2021.
StoryMap
|Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 57-73 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students, 2nd Edition. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2020. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 191-206 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 4th edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Wood, Lydia, Kate Swanson and Don Colley. 2020.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Tenets for a radical care ethics in geography. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 19(2):424-447.
Thompson, Amy, Rebecca M. Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue & Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2019.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45: 235-252.
Gilliam, Shea Ellen and Kate Swanson. 2019. A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Gender, Place and Culture. 27: 903-911.
Askins, Kye and Kate Swanson. 2019. Holding onto emotions: politics, social justice and academic approaches.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Emotion, Space and Society. 33. 100617.
Gutierrez, Jose, Paul Martin, Sam Orndoff, Aliona Galkina, Mckenna Kull, Steven Webb, and Kate Swanson. (2018).
Professional reports
|A Glance From Our Stance: Educational Experiences at SDSU. San Diego State University, San Diego. Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate. 2018. Street vendors.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 355-363 in The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalscha and M. Prieto (Eds.). London: Routledge.
Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 90-98 in in Social Justice and the City. N. Heynen (Ed.) New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-32274-5
Swanson, Kate. 2018. From New York to Ecuador and back again: Transnational journeys of policies and people.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108: 390-398.
Pearson, Elliot, Kate Swanson and Thomas Herman. 2017. A Study of Young People’s Geographical Knowledge, Global Awareness, and Attitudes Toward Geography Education. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University and California Geographic Alliance.
Professional reports
|Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Swanson, Kate, Richard Caslow and Leilani Konrad. 2017. Perceptions & Knowledge of Geography on an American College Campus. San Diego: Department of Geography, San Diego State University.
Professional reports
|Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.
Mackie, Peter, Kate Swanson and Ryan Goode. 2017. Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 63-76 in Rebel Streets, Informal Economies and the Law. A. Brown (Ed). London: Routledge.
Conners, Erin E., Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales Miranda, Carmen Fernández Casanueva, Valerie Mercer, Kimberly Brouwer. 2017.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|HIV risk behaviors and correlates of inconsistent condom use among substance using Central American migrants. AIDS and Behavior. 21: 2033-2045.
Swanson, Kate and Thomas Herman. 2017. Geography is global.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Social Studies Review. 55: 31-34.
Wood, Lydia, Stuart Aitken and Kate Swanson. 2016. Young people’s rights to recreate spaces and reimagine borders.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 1-22 in Geographies of Children and Young People. Space, Landscape, and Environment. Karen Nairn, Peter Kraftl, and Tracey Skelton (Eds.). London: Springer.
Swanson, Kate. 2016. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 189-203 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 3rd edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Swanson, Kate and Rebecca M. Torres. 2016. Child migration and transnationalized violence in Central and North America.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Journal of Latin American Geography. 15: 23-48. * JLAG Most Downloaded in 2017
Swanson, Kate. 2014. Urban ethnography.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 54-69 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2014. Where is home? An autoethnography of academic migration.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 27-40 in Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives. Academic Mobility at the Borderlands. Rémy Tremblay and Susan Hardwick (Eds.). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Aitken, Stuart, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth Kennedy. 2014. Unaccompanied migrant children and youth: navigating relational borderlands.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 214-240 in Children and Borders by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou (Eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goode, Ryan J., Kate Swanson and Stuart C. Aitken. 2013. From God to Men: media and the turbulent fight for Rio’s favelas.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 161-180 in G. H. Curti, J. Craine, and S. Aitken (eds.). The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Swanson, Kate. 2013. Zero tolerance in Latin America: punitive paradox in urban policy mobilities.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Urban Geography. 34: 972-988.
Goerisch, Denise and Kate Swanson. 2013. ‘It’s called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls’ bodies.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Children’s Geographies. 13: 451-466.
Swanson, Kate. 2012. Children and young people in Latin America.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 187-201 in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds.), Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011. Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations in Children’s Geographies.
Edited journal collections
|This special issue features writings by fourteen scholars from academic institutes in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Notably, Routledge published this special issue as a separate book in Spring 2011 (see above, under Peer-reviewed books).
Swanson, Kate. 2011. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 103-110 in S. Aitken, K. Swanson, F. Bosco and T. Herman (eds.), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011.
Peer-reviewed books
|Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.
Swanson, Kate. 2010. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Children’s Geographies. 8: 429-436.
Cumbers, Andy, Gesa Helms and Kate Swanson. 2010. Class, agency and resistance in the old industrial city. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|42:46-73. *Reprinted in March 2012 in a virtual and open-access Antipode special issue titled, “The Protester.”
Swanson, Kate. 2010. Pidiendo Caridad en la Ciudad: Mujeres y Niños Indígenas en las Calles de Ecuador.
Peer-reviewed books
|Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Abya Yala.
Swanson, Kate. 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador’s Urban Spaces.
Peer-reviewed books
|Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Philo, Chris and Kate Swanson. 2008. Afterword: global portraits and local snapshots.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
|Pages 193-207 in C. Jeffrey and J. Dyson (eds.), Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Swanson, Kate. 2007. “Bad mothers” and “delinquent children”: unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 14: 703-720.
Swanson, Kate. 2007. Revanchist urbanism heads south: the regulation of Indigenous beggars and street vendors in Ecuador.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 39: 708-728.
Swanson, Kate, Richard G. Kuhn and Wei Xu. 2001. Environmental policy implementation in rural China: a case study of Yuhang, Zhejiang.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
|Environmental Management. 27: 481-491.